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100 1  VanderVelde, Lea,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2008042813|eauthor. 
245 10 Redemption songs :|bsuing for freedom before Dred Scott /
       |cLea VanderVelde. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2014]
300    xii, 305 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (265-287) and index. 
505 0  A metaphor for the voices of the subordinate buried in 
       history -- Peter's dual redemption -- The three daughters 
       of Marie Scypion -- Winny and her children -- The kidnap 
       of Lydia's children -- John Merry, also known as Jean 
       Marie : free born -- David Shipman -- The Duncan Brothers 
       : Black and white -- Leah Charleville -- Sex and servitude
       in women litigants' cases -- Yours truly, Lucy A. Delaney 
       -- The slaves of Milton Duty -- Canadienne Rose -- The 
       final chapter. 
520    "The Dred Scott case is the most notorious example of 
       slaves suing for freedom. Most examinations of the case 
       focus on its notorious verdict, and the repercussions that
       the decision set off-especially the worsening of the 
       sectional crisis that would eventually lead to the Civil 
       War-were extreme. In conventional assessment, a slave 
       losing a lawsuit against his master seems unremarkable. 
       But in fact, that case was just one of many freedom suits 
       brought by slaves in the antebellum period; an example of 
       slaves working within the confines of the U.S. legal 
       system (and defying their masters in the process) in an 
       attempt to win the ultimate prize: their freedom. And 
       until Dred Scott, the St. Louis courts adhered to the rule
       of law to serve justice by recognizing the legal rights of
       the least well-off. For over a decade, legal scholar Lea 
       VanderVelde has been building and examining a collection 
       of more than 300 newly discovered freedom suits in St. 
       Louis. In Redemption Songs, VanderVelde describes twelve 
       of these never-before analyzed cases in close detail. 
       Through these remarkable accounts, she takes readers 
       beyond the narrative of the Dred Scott case to weave a 
       diverse tapestry of freedom suits and slave lives on the 
       frontier. By grounding this research in St. Louis, a city 
       defined by the Antebellum frontier, VanderVelde reveals 
       the unique circumstances surrounding the institution of 
       slavery in westward expansion. Her investigation shows the
       enormous degree of variation among the individual 
       litigants in the lives that lead to their decision to file
       suit for freedom. Although Dred Scott's loss is the most 
       widely remembered, over 100 of the 300 St. Louis cases 
       that went to court resulted in the plaintiff's 
       emancipation. Beyond the successful outcomes, the very 
       existence of these freedom suits helped to reshape the 
       parameters of American slavery in the nation's expansion. 
       Thanks to VanderVelde's thorough and original research, we
       can hear for the first time the vivid stories of a 
       seemingly powerless group who chose to use a legal system 
       that was so often arrayed against them in their fight for 
       freedom from slavery"--|cProvided by publisher. 
561    Gift of Professor John M. Baer. 
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